Language & Gender Flashcards
Stereotype
Are formed through our observations of others in daily life, which is then reflected in the language we use to refer to specific groups of people in society.
Hegemony
How one social group can use language to get other people to accept its way of seeing the world as natural.
Pejorative Term
A judgemental term that usually implies disapproval or criticism.
Ideology
A system of ideas.
Linguistic Relativity
The idea that the language we use to talk and write about things can determine the way we think and are influenced about/by them.
Idiolect
Your own personal way of speaking.
Sociolect
The way you speak in specific group / in social situations.
Social Construct
An idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society.
Stereotypical Language
The language used to make preconceived judgements or assumptions about a person or group of people.
Gender Representation
Refers to how images of men and women are constructed and portrayed in texts.
Lens of Context
Exploring representations through a particular context.
The Deficit Model
Men and Women speak differently with men’s speech as the ‘norm’ and women’s speech viewed as ‘submissive’ and ‘weaker’
Ethnographic Research
The systematic study of groups of people and cultures carried out by close observation.
What is a negative of Ethnographic Research
Doesn’t account for the full demographics, not detailed data and anecdotal.
Folk Linguistics
The opinions and beliefs that non-linguists hold about language.
Sociolinguistics
the study of language in relation to social factors, including differences of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism. All aspects of society.
Interactional Sociolinguistics
Focus on the language in its social context (ethnographic).
Variational Sociolinguists
The study in the way language changed in communities of speakers and the interaction between social factors and linguistic features.
Dialectology
The study of accents and dialects.
Corpora
A large collection of data usually stored electronically.
Hypercorrection
A pronunciation, word form or grammatical construction mistakenly perceived to be standard usage and substituted in a desire to be correct.
Over Prestige
Status gained by speakers from using a particular dialect or language.
Dominance Approach
Men use language as a means to reinforce and maintain their power in conversations and women assert their lack of power through their language choices.
Gender Paradox
The phenomenon that women use more prestigious standard forms of English than men but that they also lead language change by adopting new forms of everyday English.
